Expert Opinions

Blue Coat's Jonathan Andresen, Director of Product Marketing, Asia Pacific, discusses "Direct-to-Net" WAN optimization, in the light of performance issues caused by congestion, latency and aggressive recreational applications.

Most organisations maintain multiple directories and the number of directories to maintain grows every time a new technology is added to the communications mix.

In the current economic downturn, the business case for on-premise conferencing solutions is too compelling to ignore, writes Gavin Hill, Global Business Development Manager for Unified Communications at Dimension Data.

Unified communications is not a technology that you can sell as a single product to a client, it’s a client experience. It leverages an organisation’s existing investment, whether it is telephony, e-mail, directory services, video conferencing or other components, and provides organisations with a unified communications experience on a single interface.

Process innovations will be the driver of IT transformation

Having deployed and tried a private cloud, businesses can now consider using a public cloud for some simple, low risk services.

A recent Gartner survey found that 85 percent of organizations anticipate their spending with external service providers (ESP) to increase or stay the same when the economy returns, pointing to a return to growth in the IT services market in 2010.

It's no secret that modern threats are converging and a significant portion of data loss occurs via targeted Web and email attacks. Why do many organizations manage multiple different security technologies and have to choose between Web, email or data security? This article discusses the challenges faced by organizations in the real world, the choices to consider and the effect this can have on success.

We hear the term "Cloud Computing" being bandied about as some type of slogan proclaiming modernization or technological advancement. It is hip, and everyone is joining the fray. So what exactly is Cloud Computing?

We hear the term "Cloud Computing" being bandied about as some type of slogan proclaiming modernization or technological advancement. It is hip, and everyone is joining the fray. So what exactly is Cloud Computing?